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  • Epigenomic Mechanisms of Centromere Function and Chromosome Rearrangements
    Stimpson Woodlief, Kaitlin Marie (2012)
    <p>The centromere is essential for chromosome segregation and genome stability. It is the site of kinetochore assembly and chromosome attachment to the spindle microtubules, and it is important for chromosome movement ...
  • Epistasis among Drosophila persimilis Factors Conferring Hybrid Male Sterility with D-pseudoobscura bogotana
    Chang, Audrey S.; Bennett, Sarah; Noor, Mohamed (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)
    The Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller model posits that hybrid incompatibilities result from genetic changes that accumulate during population divergence. Indeed, much effort in recent years has been devoted to identifying genes ...
  • Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions and hepatocarcinogenesis
    Jou, Janice; Diehl, Anna Mae (AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC, 2010)
    Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) are believed to play a role in invasion and metastasis of many types of tumors. In this issue of the JCI, Chen et al. show that a gene that has been associated with aggressive ...
  • EPR Spectroscopy of Nitrite Complexes of Methemoglobin
    Stamler, Jonathan (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2010)
    The chemical interplay of nitrogen oxides (NO's) with hemoglobin (Hb) has attracted considerable recent attention because of its potential significance in the mechanism of NO-related vasoactivity regulated by Hb. An important ...
  • Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Monte Carlo Simulations of Microphases and Cluster Crystals
    Zhang, Kai (2012)
    <p>Soft matter systems exhibiting spatially modulated patterns on a mesoscale are characterized by many long-lived metastable phases for which relaxation to equilibrium is difficult and a satisfactory thermodynamic description ...
  • An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market
    Bayer, Dr Patrick; McMillan, Robert; Rueben, Kim S. (SSRN eLibrary, 2004)
    This paper introduces an equilibrium framework for analyzing residential sorting, designed to take advantage of newly available restricted-access Census microdata. The framework adds an equilibrium concept to the discrete ...
  • Equity and accuracy in medical malpractice insurance pricing
    Sloan, Frank; Hassan, Mahmud (Journal of Health Economics, 1990)
    This study examines alternative classification approaches for setting medical malpractice insurance premiums. Insurers generally form risk classification categories on factors other than the physician's own loss experience. ...
  • Equity Trading Volume and Volatility: Latent Information Arrivals and Common Long-Run Dependencies
    Bollerslev, Tim; Jubinski, P.D. (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1999)
    This article examines the behavior of equity trading volume and volatility for the individual firms composing the Standard & Poor's 100 composite index. Using multivariate spectral methods, we find that fractionally ...
  • Error Recovery in Cyberphysical Digital-Microfluidic Biochips
    Luo, Yan; Chakrabarty, Krishnendu; Ho, Tsung-Yi (2012-07-20)
    Droplet-based “digital” microfluidics technology has now come of age and software-controlled biochips for healthcare applications are starting to emerge. However, today’s digital microfluidic biochips suffer from the ...
  • Escherichia coli Mutants That Synthesize Dephosphorylated Lipid A Molecules
    Ingram, Brian O.; Masoudi, Ali; Raetz, Christian R. H. (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2010)
    The lipid A moiety of Escherichia lipopolysaccharide is a hexaacylated disaccharide of glucosamine that is phosphorylated at the 1 and 4' positions. Expression of the Francisella novicida lipid A 1-phosphatase FnLpxE in ...
  • Essays in Applied Microeconomics With Policy Implications
    Geissler, Christopher Scott (2013)
    <p>My dissertation focuses on employing microeconomic techniques to study markets and questions that are important and complex, and also have potential policy implications. Two of my chapters analyze the health industry ...
  • Essays in Asset Pricing
    Ochoa-Coloma, Juan Marcelo (2013)
    <p>The three essays in this dissertation explore the role of fluctuations in aggregate volatility and global temperature as sources of systemic risk. </p><p>The first essay proposes a production-based asset pricing model ...
  • Essays in Capital Structure
    Yang, Jie (2010)
    <p>The costs and constraints to financing, and the factors that influence them, play critical roles in the determination of corporate capital structures.</p> <p>Chapter 1 estimates firm-specific marginal cost of debt ...
  • Essays in Consumer Finance
    Kung, Edward (2012)
    <p>This dissertation explores issues regarding the design of consumer financial contracts and their implications for market structure and economic efficiency. These questions are important because, as the recent mortgage ...
  • Essays in Corporate Finance
    Pratt, Ryan (2012)
    <p>I study the effect of human capital on firms' leverage decisions in a structural dynamic model. Firms produce using physical capital and labor. They pay a cost per employee they hire, thus investing in human capital. ...
  • Essays in Development Economics
    Genoni, Maria Eugenia (2011)
    <p>This dissertation explores three important topics in the Development Economics literature. The first chapter provides further evidence on the consequences of illness episodes on earnings and consumption in Indonesia. ...
  • Essays in Economics of Crime
    Kang, Songman (2012)
    <p>This dissertation consists of three essays in economics of crime. The first chapter examines the relationship between economic inequality and crime, and provides a new theoretical explanation and empirical evidence. ...
  • Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
    Vukotic, Marija (2010)
    <p>This dissertation consists of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. In the first essay, I explore the dynamic effects of aggregate news about</p> <p>future technology improvements on sectoral fundamentals. I ...
  • Essays in Financial Economics
    Li, Kai (2013)
    <p>My dissertation, consisting of three related essays, aims to understand the role of macroeconomic risks in the stock and bond markets. In the first chapter, I build a financial intermediary sector with a leverage ...
  • Essays in Financial Economics
    Shaliastovich, Ivan (2009)
    <p>The central puzzles in financial economics commonly include</p><p>violations of the expectations hypotheses, predictability of excess returns, and the levels and volatilities of nominal bond yields, in addition to ...